Equestrian Muse

Bayou Road Equine Therapy Program will work with adults, teens, children, and veterans from our community and the surrounding communities. We aim to meet the needs of our community. The growing population of veterans is largely underserved in the local community. We make a difference for these men, women, and children. We offer a riding time for clients and veterans and with their families. The date is subject to change or be canceled due to holiday and/or bad weather, but we will keep that posted on our Facebook page and our website to notify clients by phone.

Bayou Road Equine Assist Program teaches how to interact with and care for the animals, instilling a sense of pride and achievement. Equine Assist Therapy is very effective in treating:

• Anxiety
• Autism,
• Brain Disorders
• Depression
• Bipolar Disorder
• Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
• Post Traumatic Stress
• Developmental Disorders
• Psychosocial Disorders
• Emotional and Physical Traumas

Our care is individualized to meet every client’s needs. 

TREATMENT GUIDELINES

All Equine Assist Therapy will be provided at our facility

137 Bayou Road, Greenville Mississippi 38701

Our care is provided under the care of physicians, registered nurse, counselor, psychiatrist, social worker, and case manager in our Care Team. Under the guidance of our team Registered Nurse from Nursing, Physician, Counseling, and Psychology.

We have trained staff on hand to teach and assist with the animal care.

We will accept a number of Counseling and Psychology graduate students.

PLAN OF CARE     

Each client will have an individualized Plan of Care with weekly goals outlined to be achieved until 8-12 week completion. On completion, each client will have met or exceeded goals, and reached a new level of accomplishment, satisfaction, leadership, and confidence. We will seek to achieve the optimal or improved functioning and performance.

An interdisciplinary team that consists of all staff and the client’s family members, who participate in their care will meet, weekly, to discuss the each client’s progress.

ON- SITE MONITORS

We will provide direct hands-on training and education, including on-site monitoring of each client’s abilities, activities, behaviors, and goal-oriented progress to determine the effects of training and experience in therapeutic equine therapy for each client. We will maintain progress reports. Files will be maintained on-site, with progress reports and follow-ups sent to referral sources.

THERAPEUTIC RIDING

This type of therapy improves the individual’s self-awareness, confidence, and discipline, along with improving fine motor skills, posture, balance, and coordination. Therapeutic riding involves all of the muscles of the body and stimulates all body systems. The rhythmic gait of the horse causes the rider’s pelvis, trunk, and shoulder girdle to react in ways similar to those produced by the normal human walk.

Those with the following disabilities respond to therapeutic riding:

• Autism
• Spectrum Disorder
• Developmental Delay
• Emotional Disturbance
• Head Injuries
• Poliomyelitis
• Scoliosis
• Spina Bifida
• Stroke

Each client is assessed and approved appropriate, prior to beginning Therapeutic Riding. Our mission at Bayou Road  Equine Assisted Therapeutic Facility is to provide a much needed service to our community. For ages, therapeutic horseback riding experiences have been used by people with special emotional, physical, and mental needs.

We think it’s time to bring Equine Therapy to the Delta. It’s much needed in the local community, instead of drugs, or indoor treatment. Our clients get to heal in a beautiful outdoor environment, where hope floats and miracles happen. For ages, the bond between man and horse has healed the body, mind, and spirit.

We will teach you how to care for and use the horse, how to ride for various forms of wholistic therapy. All of this would not be possible without the dedicated support from our staff, caregivers, and the Delta community.

PHYSICAL BENEFITS OF RIDING

• Physical satisfaction
• Decreased spasticity
• Improved appetite   
• Help with digestion
• Improved balance
• Improved coordination                  
• Better faster reflexes
• Improve motor skills
• Improve respiration
• Improve circulation
• Increased range of motion of the joints
• Reduction of abnormal movement patterns
• Sensory integration
• Strengthens muscles
• Stretching and relaxing tight or spastic muscles.                       

PSYCHOLOGICAL BENEFITS                    

• Development of patience
• Emotional control     
• Self-discipline
• General sense of well being and acceptance
• Improved risk-taking abilities

SOCIAL BENEFITS

• Improved self-confidence
• Increased interest in one’s own life
• Increased interest in the “outside world”
• Increased sense of control
• Sense of normality
• Feeling of Social acceptance and gratitude

BENEFITS OF RIDING

• Development of friendships and trust
• Development of respect and love for animals
• Experience a sense of being a part of a team
• Experience independence

THERAPY LENGTH

How long does this therapy last?

Equine-assisted therapy can last for a few months, at the very least. Those who really require time and are showing some progress could stick to it for several years. It depends on what your insurance is willing to cover. We accept payment from all source, private and insurance.

REFERRAL SOURCES

Referrals are accepted from any sources, doctors, social workers, family, nurses, the individual, groups, and therapists. All clients will be evaluated and a plan of therapy will be established to individualize the Plan of  Care (POC) specific to the client’s diagnosis, illness, pycho-social problem, and wholistic needs. We will work with all care providers and therapists to restore to the client’s optimal functioning level to hit the target.

Contact

Walter Humphrey

Caliph Zaphnathpaaneah El

• caliph58@yahoo.com
• 510-915-2410
• 137 Bayou Road, Greenville, MS 38701

If trees could talk

A WOMAN HAS A RIGHT

A woman has a right to make decisions

Do meaningful work

Not to be discriminated against

Be treated with respect and

Not to be subjected to violence

Racism, economic exploitation, and imperialism

Along with gender oppression

Destroy the lives of women and their families

Around the world

We want to dismantle all walls

From prison walls to border walls

From Mexico to Palestine

©2017 Dr. Joan Cartwright

The Woman Problem

[This post came from FACEBOOK from John Em, a man who gets it.  Thank you to the woman who wrote this.]

“I’m 14 and I’m struggling in Algebra class. When I ask for help, the male teacher says, ‘I’m not surprised, girls aren’t that good at Algebra.’

I’m 18 and go to my first fraternity parties with girlfriends. We don’t ever say it out loud but it’s understood that we need to stick together at these parties and not get separated, for our own safety.

I’m 20 and I’m working as a hostess at the Red Lion Inn in San Jose, near the airport. Men in suits come in to eat after their meetings during the day and I see them take off their wedding rings before heading into the bar next to the restaurant. Every girl who works there learns quickly not to bend too far over because of the short skirts of our uniforms.

I’m 22 and it’s my first day on a new job. My male supervisor gets me into a room alone and I think he’s going to tell me about the job but instead he tells me about how much he likes sex and how he needs to have it every day. I get up and walk out of the room and avoid him after that, but I don’t tell anyone because I’m one of the only women there and I don’t know what to do.

I’m 24 and I’m watching Anita Hill on TV, testifying about a man who wants to be on the Supreme Court. I don’t understand everything I’m watching but I understand that she’s a black woman facing down a panel of white men and she is going to lose because, at 24, I do understand who has power and who does not.

I’m any age in my 20s and I’m walking on the street, in a park, in a city, in a suburb, anywhere. Men tell me to smile, to wait a minute, to slow down what’s my hurry, can I ask you a question, can I stand too close to you, can I demand your space, your time, your attention, hey where you going bitch?

I’m 25. I’m buying my first car and the salesman offers a price I know is way too high. I bring my stepdad to the showroom and the same car is now $3000 less. I smile and buy the car but inside, I’m seething.

I’m any age in my 30’s and I think about where I park, where I go, whether I should get in that elevator that only has one man in it and how I should make sure not to make eye contact with men in the streets. All of this is normal to me and I don’t question any of it.

I’m 35. I’m buying my second car and the salesman says we should wait for my husband to get there before talking about the price but would I like to see the makeup mirror? I tell him I’m a lesbian and, if he’s waiting for my husband, he’s going to be waiting a long time. I leave because I’m learning.

I’m 40 and a woman, Hillary Clinton, is taking a serious run at the Democratic presidential nomination. She’s smart, tough and qualified but she endures endless anger, viciousness, and misogyny and she eventually loses in the primary. Male friends tell me it’s probably for the best because there’s just something they don’t like about her, you know?

I’m 49 and a man who said he grabs women by the pussy is elected as the 45th President of the United States. The night of the election, I feel physically ill and my first conscious thought is ‘my God, the Supreme Court.’ The next morning, I overhear two men laughing and congratulating each other about the election and I feel unsafe in my own country.

I’m 51 and another man who stands credibly accused of sexual assault has just been confirmed to serve on the Supreme Court. I see women on television sobbing, screaming, protesting, crying out in their anguish and their fear. I am so angry. I think of every woman I know and I am so angry.

I am any age, every age. I am a woman. I am a daughter. I am discounted. I am underrepresented. I am underestimated. But I am a voter. Today, that has to be enough.”

~ Author Unknown

Telling our stories

I’m listening to these women musicians relate stories of their lives in the male-dominated industry.

I am inspired to tell some of my own stories.

Messages in Women’s Music

On June 14, 2016, the United State of Women was convened by the White House and the First Lady. This Summit rallied all of us together to celebrate what we’ve achieved, and how we’re going to take action moving forward. Covering key gender equality issues, we made a powerful difference in our collective future. A live stream of our inspiring speakers, including First Lady Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey and more, was live from Washington D.C. #STATEOFWOMEN
LIVE STREAM http://www.theunitedstateofwomen.org/livestream/

I move that women in music be discussed for two reasons:

1) women musicians earn 12% of the $27.5 Billion earned in the Music Business;

2) women musicians earn 64 cents to the dollar that male musicians earn, while women in other fields earn 78 cents.

There is power in the messages in women’s music and it is not tapped into, appropriately. Music changes the world on so many levels. When women’s music is not played on the airwaves, programmed at main events like operas, symphonies, and large festivals, the entirety of mankind suffers. Rather than music that accompanies films that portray murder and mayhem, women’s music can change the fabric of the culture of humankind.

http://www.wijsf.org

 

Goddess Awakening

September 12, 2014

Hello, this is Joan.  I’m bringing you peace and love.

It’s always a pleasure to listen to the voices on this call. (www.sovcpr.com)

We have been calling Yah, and calling Yah, and calling Yah. We were instructed that we command the universe. That we can request the guardian to do our bidding, as long as it is good for all of us and for all of human kind. However, we have crossed over into the time of the Divine Feminine. We have negated, omitted, left out the Divine Mother. As long as we continue to do that, we will be in confusion and will not know the answers.

The moment that we turn our eyes to Mother, acknowledge her, she will re-emerged onto the planet. She didn’t leave, she went into obscurity for fifty seven centuries (57,000 years) and ,now, she has re-emerged. Even Father Yah is waiting for us to awaken to the power, to the current, to the energy, to the currency of the Mother. Each women on this call is calling for her.

However, we are not calling with power. We’re calling with tears, we’re calling with faith, we’re calling with hope, but not calling with power. So each woman on this call has a responsibility to awaken to her feminine power. Each man on this call can call to the Mother. When you call to the Mother, healing will take place, immediately.

On October the 11, 2014, the planet will pass through the photon belt and we will be in the fifth dimension, fully. That means that we no longer have to make our transition, die, to be ascended beings. We must awaken to our higher selves, we must call on our Mighty I Am Presence to charge our feeling world with its feeling. So that when we issue the decree we are not affected by the human condition. The human condition is temporary, elusive. It’s an illusion. We are deluded, until we’ve awakened to the power of Mother, Father, All that is.

We are only using part of the power and it is up to each individual human being to awaken to the Divine Feminine, right now. You don’t have anymore time to dwell on the story that you have told. There are no more stories. You keep repeating the same story. You have to write a new story. You have to use your words. You have to use your power. You have to use your currency, your energy. Money is an illusion. It’s only energy.

The reality is that Gaia is a living, breathing entity. Two weeks ago there was a crack in the surface in Mexico, there was an earthquake in California. There have been several earthquakes, showing that Mother Gaia is breaking up. She just cannot handle you dwelling in the wrong sense any longer.

So, women, awaken to your personal power. Men are waiting for you to awaken. You have been asking questions, you have been relinquishing your own intuition, your own understanding, what you can bring to this story. You keep repeating the same old jargon and it is time for a new Spring.

[Transcribed by Sandra Kaye]

Links:
http://www.archonmatrix.com/soul-contract-removal-to-free-the-divine-feminine
http://www.carlasanders.typepad.com/orgasmic_alchemy/2012/12/cross-the-threshold.html
http://www.sistarmamamyrah.com/2015/08/28/ancestral-love
http://www.divineconnectionchurch.wordpress.com
http://www.fyicomminc.com/spirit/awakening.htm

 

Symposium on Women in Arts Video

Register at www.wijsf.com/events/symposium.htm

Symposium on Women in the Arts

TALK is cheap. DOING something costs time, money, and THINKING. I’ve been an advocate for women musicians since 1997. I founded a non-profit organization to promote and support women musicians in 2007. This year, we’re calling for a Symposium on Women in the Arts because all people learn through the ARTS. 115 people registered for this symposium to be held in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, August 4, 2015 @ 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The problem is we tried to hold it at The White House but were denied access. Then, we tried the Library of Congress but they don’t allow groups to hold events during the day. Now, we’re trying George Washington U and Georgetown U but the Women’s Studies Departments at both schools “do not have resources” for this event. It’s ridiculous. Women are marginalized even more than people of color but they just do not see it. They do not receive the financial support earmarked by government funding of the arts. They are omitted from all-male big bands and orchestras. And they don’t fight to make things CHANGE. When women join together to change the world, everything will change. But like the poster above stated, “We have jobs, homes, cars and are ALLOWED to take little breaks (vacations) from time to time so we believe the illusion that we are free.” Women are second class citizens to males, Black and White. The only difference is White males have economic power (especially GAY WHITE MALES, who have no women to answer to or care for). Black males have little economic power but still tend to dominate women. When will women join together to make CHANGE in this world. TALK is cheap. We must DO something. If you are a women artist, author, architect, musician, composer, actress, filmmaker, or other cultural producer, Register for the symposium at the link on this page: http://wijsf.com/events/symposium.htm

Ratify Equal Rights Amendment

Are women in the South just stupid?

WHY has the Equal Rights Amendment not been ratified in these 12 Southern states and 3 Western states?

Somebody please explain this to me. Can women in the South read?

Are they conscious or are they just stupid?

Wake up Southern and Western women. YOU are holding us all back.

http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/ – If insulting you is the only way to wake you up, so be it!